Stories from Wednesday, May 29, 2013

WICHITA -- Two Uniontown athletes won medals here Saturday at the Kansas State Track and Field Meet. Junior Da'Nisha Robinson took fourth place in shot put and senior Trenton Miller finished seventh in discus. It was the first State medal for each in their second State appearance. The marks that they achieved were also personal bests...

WICHITA -- When Katren Rienbolt won the Class 4A 3,200 meter State championship at the Kansas State Track and Field Meet Friday, she was caught up in traffic at the start but went on to win by a wide margin. Saturday, she was even farther back in the pack after one lap of the 4A 1,600-meter championship race. In fact, according to the official results, she was in ninth place...

Gloria Ann Dalton, age 80, formerly of Fort Scott, died early Saturday, May 25, 2013, at Del-Mar Gardens in Overland Park, Kan. She was born June 18, 1932, in Eve, Mo, the daughter of Hubert R. Stanley and Virginia M. Phillips Stanley. She graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1949. ...

Billye Ruth Wilson, 70, of Fort Scott, died Sunday evening, May 26, 2013 at the Mercy Hospital Fort Scott. She was born July 24, 1942 in Springfield, Mo. She was the daughter of Raymond Edward and Ruth Mae Hart Renfro. After graduating from Fort Scott High in 1960, she worked for the Western Insurance Company and later Lincoln National totaling 20 years. ...

Helen K. Stump, age 93, former resident of Grandview, Mo. and more recently of Austin Texas, died Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Sagebrook Health Center, Cedar Park, Texas. She was born Aug. 25, 1919 in Powell, Wyo. the daughter of Noel Ketner and Ruth Elizabeth Koefoed Ketner. ...

Derek Schmidt, Kansas Attorney General, spoke at the Fort Scott Kiwanis Club on Tuesday about the need to be vigilant in schemes that will try to get people to part with their money. His office has received 5,000 complaints about scams, he said One scam he highlighted was a case of a 92-year-old woman, who had just lost her husband...

Almost 500 people were able to experience life as it was on a frontier military fort in the mid-1800s during Memorial Day activities this past weekend at Fort Scott National Historic Site. Events at the site included living history programs, cooking demonstrations and artillery firings. ...

More than 200 people gathered at the Fort Scott National Cemetery on a windy Monday to honor those who gave their lives while serving the country. The Memorial Day Service at the National Cemetery in Fort Scott featured retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander P. Fullerton, who traveled to Fort Scott from Leavenworth...

Authorities are investigating a one-vehicle accident that claimed the life of a Fort Scott woman Monday night. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that 44-year-old Amanda Thron, of Fort Scott, died in an accident involving a 1992 Jeep Wrangler Islander 4-by-4. Thron, who was in the front passenger seat, fell out of the vehicle and was ran over, the KHP report said. The accident took place about 10 p.m. Monday in the 1700 block of 155th Street about one mile north of Prairie Road outside of Devon...